Role: Project Solutions Engineer

Location: Milton Keynes & Client Sites 

Salary Range: £30,000 - £40,000 salary plus car allowance (£4,500)

About Us:
We have been providing our clients with comprehensive IT Support and technology solutions, including cloud services, managed print, telephony, Office 365 applications, cyber security and data recovery, and more, since 2002.

As part of Advania, we are backed by a leading technology services and solutions provider, and the most awarded Microsoft partner in the UK.

Position Overview:

To plan and implement all project activities throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring project objectives are met and smooth transition to the service desk.

Responsibilities:

• Understand and provide the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables.
• Understand the definition of the required implementation tasks and resource requirements.
• Understand and assist in the development of all project plans.
• Understand and assist in the planning of project timelines.
• Implement the Project Implementation work, ensuring all activities are actioned in line with project plans and timelines.
• Track and update project activities and deliverables using appropriate tools.
• Constantly monitor and report on progress of the project to all stakeholders.
• Escalate when the project is at risk of not delivering to the agreed requirements or timescales.
• Managing client expectations through clear communications.
• Take responsibility for own continual professional development, ensuring up to date industry and technical knowledge.
• Create and maintain customer specific infrastructure documentation.
• Undertake all other reasonable requests.

Where required you may be asked to help provide support to the Service desk and Field
Teams, where the additional following responsibilities would be expected:

• Manage and work to internal and customer SLA’s, escalating any concerns.
• End to end ownership of problem resolution.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Able to communicate verbally and in writing to both technical and non-technical
  
  audiences.
• Creative, analytical problem solver with the ability to apply original and innovative
  
  thinking.
• Methodical approach suitable to resolution of client requirements
• Able to manage changing workload and priorities
• Able to work both within a team and using own initiative
• Install, configure, troubleshoot issues, decommission & make recommendations for upgrade using:
  
  o All MS Windows Server Platforms
  
  o All SBS Platforms
  
  o All MS Exchange Technologies
  
  o MS365, O365, Sharepoint, Teams
  
  o Azure configuration and migrations
  
  o Apple Technologies / Android & Windows Mobile Technologies
• PC/Server Hardware - upgrade, both hardware and firmware. Raid configurations, iLO.
  
  Comms Cabinet Patching
• AD – configure sites and services, resolve issues
• DNS - running through the DNS structure to ensure domain entries exist for DC's,
  
  moving external DNS services around to different IP's when internet changes
• Group Policies - create, breakdown, troubleshoot issues
• Firewalls, Routers & VPN’s - install, configure & troubleshoot
  
  Click here to explore our company benefits.

At Advania, we are dedicated to the growth and development of our employees, which is reflected in our diverse learning ecosystem. Whether through self-paced online courses or provider-led training sessions, Advania ensures that all employees have access to valuable learning opportunities. We offer a range of benefits designed to support training for personal development, business needs, and client requirements.

Discover how LinkedIn Learning has become our central Learning Experience Platform (LxP) driving skill development across our organization by reading our LinkedIn Learning Case Study

#LI-Hybrid 

Our Selection Process:

We are committed to ensuring an equitable experience for all candidates, regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Please do let us know if you’ll need any reasonable adjustments as part of the selection process by highlighting these on your application form.